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The Association of Legal
Writing Directors (ALWD) has issued a call for applications for the
Legal Communication & Rhetoric: 2013 Visiting Scholars Grant Program. ALWD will award grants up to $2,500 each to law
schools to fund visits by legal writing scholars, for up to three law schools annually.

Law schools must use the grant to bring in a visiting scholar for a one- to
two-day visit that includes one or more presentations to students, faculty,
alumni, or local practitioners. The presentation should draw on the visiting
scholar’s research, and its focus should be helping law students or practicing
lawyers become more rhetorically effective and persuasive. This grant
program extends ALWD’s commitment to support, strengthen, and encourage
scholarship that focuses on the study and practice of professional legal
writing. ALWD already supports such scholarship through its financial and other
support for its journal, Legal Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD.

The application for a Visiting Scholar's Grant and a more detailed description
of the program guidelines are available here. The application deadline is February 15, 2013.

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The blog was started on November 4, 2005 by Nancy Soonpaa (Texas Tech University School of Law), Sue Liemer (Southern Illinois University School of Law), and Collen Barger (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law).

Looking for examples of good legal writing? In its spring 2010 issue, the Green Bag published a list of "Exemplary Legal Writing" that includes court opinions, concurrences, dissents, books, and articles from 2009. I particularly like Judge Rakoff's opinion and Lani Guinier's article, but readers may find their own favorites. The journal's similar lists from past years are also rich sources of examples.